For perhaps entirely unrelated reasons I'm reminded of the scientific principle "Making Shit Up Doesn't Count As Evidence."
Does not square up with So do we go with - nobody can control it - OR - is the ability to effect change in the world - ??? Link please Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
And it's not magic. And don't try to distort Clarke's Law, he had to clarify it for the weebles that thought he was claiming magic was real shortly after it appeared in print.
But our mental processes are physical. That's why chemicals can effect our mental processes. All physical is not mental but all mental is physical.
You're suggesting an identity of mental with physical properties? On what basis seeing they are different things? For example, your thought of your wife and some synapses firing in your brain. They're the same thing? But they're not! Not at all! One has mental properties and the other has physical properties. One is extended in space and the other is not. One can be quantified and measured and the other cannot.
Incorrect. Making a change is control Still waiting on a link Since always Not even close phys·i·cal \ˈfi-zi-kəl\ adjective :relating to the body of a person instead of the mind :existing in a form that you can touch or see men·tal \ˈmen-təl\ adjective f: relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter Mirriam-Webster Lot more under mental - I picked the relevant one Hope the above helps Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
On the basis that I mentioned: that chemicals can effect our mental processes. A physical substance has a physical effect on other physical substances. If there was a non-physical woo component to mental activities, how would you know?
So, as we can see so far, no one has or can put forth a definition of the term that has consensus. That's sort of a prerequisite for asking whether it exists.
But mental properties also effect chemical processes. I guarantee you if you solve an equation you are effecting the chemical processes of your brain. Therefore mental processes must have existence outside of physical processes, no?
Sure, physical effects physical. Non sequitur. Thought is chemical (and electrical) processes. Chemical/electrical processes trigger chemical/electrical processes. No external influence is implied.
If thought can effect chemical changes in your brain, it can't exactly be the same as those chemical processes can it? Causality assumes the non-identity of the cause and the effect.
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